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Connect – WordPress and BuddyPress Theme

Build a community with the Connect BuddyPress theme for WordPress!

Connect is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme for those that want to build a community around their news site. Since BuddyPress has progressed so much in the last year, we figured a theme with social networking capabilities was overdue. Besides, our community has been asking for such a theme for quite some time. Now you have it with all these features below:

Responsive

The theme is fully responsive and ready for any device (table, mobile phone, etc).

Category Templates

Like many of our themes, Connect also has several category templates to give up your site some much needed variety.

Post Templates

Connect has three post templates. You can decide exactly what layout a post should have. Here are examples of post layou

Mega Dropdown with Category-Specific Ads

To keep things interesting, you not only have the option to turn any category menu item into a mega drop-down, but you can also embed a category-specific ad within it. During our tests, we noticed many users clicked on those ads, so let’s hope you have the same results.

There’s More…

As with most of our themes, one blog post is never enough to capture all the theme features.

Related Posts – eliminate another plugin! We got you covered.

Gabfire Widgets – The entire site is widgetized, and includes all of our custom widgets.

Shortcodes – need some additional styling to spice up that article, use shortcodes!

and many more finer points that make this theme worth every penny.

BuddyPress’ tagline is Social networking, in a box. That’s exactly what you get with the Connect theme. Go ahead and start your own WordPress-powered social network!

35 Responses to "Connect – WordPress and BuddyPress Theme"

Tony September 4, 2012 at 3:43 PM

When I go to buy Standard pack it says $59.00, Then it says $79.00 after that. Didn’t check the theme out to much, but was going to buy just to have in my arsenal, as I have almost all of your themes. They are always great . So just want to know what is the price?

Hi,
We recently had to change our domain name because our old one was purchased by someone else, so I no longer have access to that website. Because Gabfire has our URL and our Admin URL wrong (our old one, thediablodispatch.com, is incorrect), I can’t install our new theme that we just purchased on our new website, mvhsnews.com. If you could please change this information in your database for us, that would be amazing.
Thank you!

We are considering this theme for a magazine site that serves about 4 million pageviews a month. Is there any reservations regarding performance of this theme on WordPress? Would you recommend a host that uses CDN?
Does buddypress scale to a community of 100,000 or more? Would you recommend WordPress included registration or would you go to a 3rd party.
Thanks in advance
Joe

This theme does not have lots of queries on front page meaning it will work just fine for your server. We have one of our most heavy theme running on a site which gets over 3 million hits per month.

I would suggest wpengine.com for hosting. You can purchase CDN as a different service from another company. As for the number of users for BuddyPress, it is only as much as your server handles. There is no limitation Joe.

Thank you Mehmet. May I ask which theme is your most heavy and why that theme was chosen by that particular client? I guess what I’m asking is … are there features/functions we’d be missing with Connect vs another?

If we found a theme we wanted to use, but customize significantly by digging into the source code, can we do that?

Awww dayum, I just purchased the Art & Culture theme and I love it but this theme is amazing! I love the buddypress integration but like I said I just did my site over using the Art & Culture theme..I have a crazy question/request…are you guys planning on making a Art & Culture 2.0 that includes buddypress? 🙂

Just bought the theme but having some issues. I’ve installed BBPress and activated.
The top login menu and the login after slider not showing up in Safari while it works fine on chrome and firefox.
There should be an option to allow turn off the slider if someone don’t it.

Hi So, Please submit this question to our support forums. As for this problem, it sounds like you are having an issue with one of your active plugins. Please try to deactivate your plugins and test your site with no plugins.